Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:38 am
It looks like a faker to me.
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Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:47 pm
Fake.
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:38 pm
Faker - fretboard wood, stripe too wide, maple inferior, FG wrong.
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:16 pm
I figured as much. 
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:02 pm
Thanks to all our resident experts. Now I know more about fake-spotting in photos; never have a problem in person.
Incidentally, I just finished restoring a mid-'70s 4001 with a fretboard every bit as dark as this faker's...
Incidentally, I just finished restoring a mid-'70s 4001 with a fretboard every bit as dark as this faker's...
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:14 pm
Ha! True. (Except maybe in the case of our guitar straps.)jingle_jangle wrote:Well, we know it's not a gennie RIC case, because RIC would NEVER use TIMES ROMAN BOLD, badly-spaced, as their corporate symbol.
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:19 am
"The fretboard looks too dark for a legit Rickenbacker. I'd say a its a faker."
Roger that. The bridge looks a bit funky too.
Roger that. The bridge looks a bit funky too.
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:48 pm
There's allot more than the fretboard that's not right(or Rick) on that bass!
The Tuners, the script writing on the name plate, fretboard and inlays, shape of the upper bout.........
It's a classic faker!
It could actually be a decent playing faker too!
I helped out the owner of a small music store here in town a couple years ago who had a Mapleglo Faker-backer.
He had it on hold for a guy who traded a G&L for it!
I brought him my '72 Fireglo and my '74 Walnut 4001's(when I still had it) to show him what the're supposed to look like!
Two things about this I thought were sad; another store owner, who should have known better told him it was "real" and the kid with the G&L still wanted to do the deal after it was positively iD'd as Non-Rickebacker.
It actually played ok but, was water damaged and was still marked at $900.00! High end should have been $300.00 at best for a severely mojo'd vintage Fake-n-baker!
I remember selling a very nice playing "Electra" 4001 copy from the music store I worked at in my early twenties!
Well, enough of that!
Long Live Real Rickenbackers!
Garret
The Tuners, the script writing on the name plate, fretboard and inlays, shape of the upper bout.........
It's a classic faker!
It could actually be a decent playing faker too!
I helped out the owner of a small music store here in town a couple years ago who had a Mapleglo Faker-backer.
He had it on hold for a guy who traded a G&L for it!
I brought him my '72 Fireglo and my '74 Walnut 4001's(when I still had it) to show him what the're supposed to look like!
Two things about this I thought were sad; another store owner, who should have known better told him it was "real" and the kid with the G&L still wanted to do the deal after it was positively iD'd as Non-Rickebacker.
It actually played ok but, was water damaged and was still marked at $900.00! High end should have been $300.00 at best for a severely mojo'd vintage Fake-n-baker!
I remember selling a very nice playing "Electra" 4001 copy from the music store I worked at in my early twenties!
Well, enough of that!
Long Live Real Rickenbackers!
Garret
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:35 pm
Yeah, but everybody knows that REAL Ricks are made in Belgium, Garret...
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:51 pm
Hey Paul,
Is Belgium South of San Francisco?
Is Belgium South of San Francisco?
Re: INTERESTING CASE...
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:47 pm
I thought it was Germany... Isn't that where John Lennon got his?! So they're made there. right?jingle_jangle wrote:Yeah, but everybody knows that REAL Ricks are made in Belgium, Garret...